10 Mostly used HTML Symbols

Writing the copyright sign in html using entity name as © or using number-code as © to easily display © made sense to me.

Little did I know that empty-space( ), slash sign ( | ), or even a dash ( - ), also hold special code in html. Similarly for a ‘ or an “.

Think about '<' being used as a 'less-than' symbol. HTML would render text after 'less-than' symbol as the beginning of a tag name, thus would create confusion. Bad character error would be avoided if you write:
 4 is < than 3  or:
 4 is < than 3 
instead of:  4 is < than 3 

There is a case where in styling, you would want your web layout to be consistent. Say, a paragraph  some text  in section-1 has some text, and similar paragraph in section-2 has no text. Instead of living the p tag empty as , you could use an empty space symbol ( ), and write it in deci-code as:
  or in hex-code as &#x20

Maybe you are using AZERTY keyboard and you don't want to spend your time figuring out where the back-tick is, just use ` .

After coding a couple of pages, I made a list for quick referencing the html symbols, their number-code/hex-code and entity code for the ones I have mostly used in basic web-pages. See cover image of this article for the list

I would substitute those characters in the html and use number code, hexadecimal or their entity names instead.

Example on how to use the symbols in code:

wow! to wow&excl;

You can get more of these symbols from W3. There is also a nice table here. Maybe an official one is your preference

Now, you are probably asking what is html-entity. Here is an MDN explanation

Which symbol have you used the most so far, and is not included in this list? Please add in the discussion section below…

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